Shoe-blacking chair.



' No. 633,421 Patented Sept. l9, I899.

G. s. BURNS & s. H. MINNICK. G. S. BURNS, Administratn'x of S. H. MINNICKDBCd.

SHOE BLACKIN G CHAIR.

(Application filed June 20, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGIA S. BURNS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AND GEORGIA S. BURNS ADMINISTRATRIX OF SILAS II. MINNIOK, DECEASED.

SHOE-BLACKING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,422, dated September 19, 1899.

Application filed June 20, 1898. Serial No. 684,019. (No model.)

To all whom it 'Il'bfbj/ concern.-

stitute a frame small enough to be inserted Be it known that I, GEORGIA S. BURNS, a throughthe foldingstoolbetween thelegs. On citizen of the United States, residing at Inthe bars 8 or on this pivoted frame, however it dianapolis, Marion county,lndiana, and SlLAs might be formed, foot-rests 11 are placed so 5 H. MINNICK, formerly of Vincennes, countyof that they will be in the proper position for one Knox, and State of Indiana, deceased, inventwho is seated on the stool. The box 12 to reed a certain new and useful Folding Shoeceive the blacking, brushes, &c., is secured Blacking Chair; and I do hereby declare that to the pivoted frame between the rear ends of the following is a full, clear, and exact dethe bars 8 and under the seat of the stool when 1o scription thereof. the sameis unfolded. With this arrangement This invention is a folding shoe-blacking the box is not in the way of either the boot* chair, box, and foot-rest. black or the occupant of the stool. Said box It consists of the combination, with afoldis provided with a sliding lid 13, that slides ing chair,of a foot-rest and blacking-box so arforward for opening the box and rearward for 15 ranged that they are readily folded, so as to closing the box. The whole device is folded be easily carried by the boot black, and readby elevating the front end or foot-rest portion ily unfolded for use. of the pivoted frame and bringing that and The full nature of it will be understood the two top rounds 8 of the stool together, as from the following description and claims and shown in Fig. I. In such position the box- 20 the accompanying drawings. lid will by reason of gravity remainin a closed In the drawings, Figure I represents aboy position. IVhen folded, the device is very carrying this invention in the folded position. compact and light, being a little heavier than Fig. II shows the shoe-blacking outfit unfoldthe ordinary folding camp-stool. ed in condition for use. Fig. III is a hori- A ring, loop, or similardevice 14 is secured 25 zontal section of the stool, showing the blackto the chair, as seen in Fig. I, so that the ingbox and foot-rest in plan, a part of the shoulder-strap 15, with a snap-hook at its latter being broken away. lower end to engage in such loop or ring, may I preferably combine the blacking-box and be used for carrying the device. This shoulfoot-rest with an ordinary folding camp-stool, der-strap may be placed as shown or thrown 0 as shown. over the head, so. that the device need not be In the drawings, 1 are the rear legs, and 2 held by the hand of the boy. the front legs, which are the supports of the It is to be observed that when a foot-rest folding stool, there being transverse pieces 3 frame is combined with a folding stool and is connecting the top of each pair and a flexible secured to the rearround of the stool the frame 35 seat 4 connecting the two such transverse will extend above the stool when folded and pieces 3. The legs cross each other and at keep in place, as appears in Fig. I. If the their junction are pivoted together by the frame be pivoted to the front round, it will be pivots 5. The lower end of the legs at the so shortthat it willnotreach the top of the stool front and in the rear are braced by the rounds when folded, so that it cannot stay in place, 4,0 or braces 6 and 7. A frame is then made of but will revolve in either direction through two parallel bars 8, that are pivoted, preferthe stool-frame and below the seat and hang ably, to the rear round or brace 6, so as to turn down, thus placing it in a very inconvenient thereon. They extend forward and are prefand useless position and inverting the box, so erably curved downward at 9, just in front of that the lid and contents would drop out. 45 the front round or brace 7, so that they will That is claimed as the invention isrest on thesaid front round orbrace and their 1. The combination with a folding stool or front ends will rest upon the floor or ground chair, whose legs cross and are pivoted at equally. There is no connection between their crossing of a foot-rest frame pivoted at these bars and the front round or brace, and its rear end to the lower brace or round of the 50 the latter is below the bars. The bars 8 are rear legs of said stool or chair.

held apart by the braces 10, so that they con- 2. The combination with a folding stool or chair whose legs cross and are pivoted at their crossing of a foot-rest frame pivoted at its rear end to the lower round or brace of the rear legs of the stool or chair, and a box secured on the rear end of said frame.

3. The combination with a folding stool or chair, of a frame extending through the chair between its legs and pivoted at its rear end to the rear round or brace of the chair and extending over the front round or brace thereof, and so formed at its front end as to rest upon the fioor when unfolded.

4. The combination with a folding stool or chair, of a foot-rest frame made of the bars 8 and the rounds 10, said bars 8 being pivotally my signature, in the presence of the Witnesses herein named, in my own behalf and as administratrix of the estate of SILAS H. MIN- NICK, deceased.

GEORGIA S, BURNS.

\Vitnesses:

V. H. LocKWooD, KATE DUNLAP. 

